Road Trip

We went on our first 'major' road trip this week to travel to her cousin Ella's 2nd Birthday Party. Julia slept the entire 1 1/2 hour car ride and she slept through most of the party too. Ella was very excited for her birthday, but we did manage to slow her down for a second to get a picture of the 2 of them together. Though I'm having some camera problems, so it will be a little while until I can get those photos posted.


Julia had lots more smiles this week. Julia is definitely growing. This duck outfit is one of my favorites, but this may be one of the last times Julia gets to wear it since she is almost too tall for the outfit when she actually stretches out straight.

Here Julia is hard at work keeping her head up, she's even staining her 'forehead muscles' to help out.

On a sad note, we unfortunately lost, our dog, Franklin earlier this week. He suddenly started having seizures that were unable to be controlled with medication, likely the result of a brain tumor. He was a great dog and a member of our family, we miss him greatly.

6 weeks

Today Julia thought of a new way to get what she wants, she produced her very first tear . . . and it worked. It melted my heart to see her first tear and I was willing to do anything to make her happy.

Lions, Tigers, and Bears oh my

This weekend Nana came to visit Julia, unfortunately Julia was missing and all I could find was this litte bear . . .

5 weeks

Another week has gone by . . .

Adventures of Julia

This was a very exciting week for Julia, she went on her first official outing. I brought her to my vet practice to meet everyone at work. She and I both enjoyed getting out of the house for an adventure. I think she enjoyed meeting everyone, though she isn't going to remember much of it since she slept through the entire visit. While I didn't have newborn scrubs for her to wear, she was properly dressed showing her love of kitty cats. (Thanks for the outfit Linda and thank you for not stealing my baby, I was afraid if I turned my back you were going to run off with her!!)
In addition to going to Colchester Vet Hospital, this week Julia also went to the grocery store, the post office, 2 doctors appointments, and multiple walks with Franklin. One of the doctor's appointments was for a diaper rash that wasn't clearing up, when I called the pediatrician I was told to come in that day at 11am, I hung up and then realized that it was 10:38am, the doctors office is 10 minutes away, I was in my pajamas, and being a newbie mom it takes awhile to actually get out the door with a newborn. To my amazement I arrived at the pediatrician at exactly 11am, I still don't know how I actually got ready and out the door the fast. The second doctors appointment was for a ultrasound of Julia's hips. She isn't having any problems, it's a standard procedure for babies that are breech. Everything went well (though she screamed during the entire ultrasound and pooped and peed on the table when her diaper was partially off for the procedure), unfortunately her hips are still too immature to do a complete evaluation (which is not unusual considering her age and that she was born at 39 weeks) so we have to go back for a repeat ultrasound when she is 6 to 7 weeks old.

The most exciting news of the week is that Julia is starting to smile, it's hard to get a picture of her in the act, but here's a photo of a partial smile.

Ella and 'Julius'

To see more of Julia meeting her big girl cousin Ella, I recommend going to my sister's blog and watch the videos of Ella. Also featured in the video is Franklin and my cats. You will notice that Franklin completely tolerates Ella, but is not so fond of Reggie.

http://cederbaby.blogspot.com/2009/02/julius.html

4 weeks

Yesterday Julia turned 4 weeks old, hit the 8 pound mark, and met her cousin Ella. I was convinced that Julia was staying the same size, but her clothes were shrinking in the dryer. Now that I went back and looked at her 1 week photos compared to her 4 week photos I have finally come to admit that my little baby is growing.

Family Tummy Time

Ella was very excited to meet baby Julia, but trying to get a toddler to stay still to take a photo of them together was close to impossible. Especially when Ella has 3 cats and a dog to pet and chase around. (At one point I overheard her talking to Franklin and she said "Come on Franklin let's tip toe... no you're not doing it!!"). To make sure Ella would get along with Julia, Julia gave Ella a gift, a bear with a red sweater on, (which Ella named "Sweater"). Ella repaid Julia for the gift by referring to her as "Julius" (a character from a children's book).

Grandpa, Julia, Sweater, and Ella
Lisa, Ella, and Julia

Family Day

Today we had our first family stroll outside. It has been incrediably cold, snowy, and icy up here in New England, finally today the sun came out, the ice on the streets melted away and it warmed up all the way to 40 degrees. Julia got to meet many of our neighbors on the walk, everyone must have been having cabin fever and realized it was a beautiful day to be outside.
After the walk Julia and dad settled down to watch the superbowl.